Resilience to health related adversity in older people

Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 197-204

  Gallacher, John ^a   Mitchell, Clive ^a   Heslop, Luke ^a   Christopher, Gary ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ageing; Cognition; Diseases; Elderly people; Health care; Resilience; Self efficacy; Self esteem; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886943731     PISSN: 14717794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14717791211264188     Document Type: Article

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